It looks like the smartphone business is placing its bets on what has been largely considered a very narrow niche in the market - high-end mobile gaming. MediaTek released a gaming-dedicated chipset series - Helio G90 and Helio G90T, Asus, Xiaomi and nubia continue their lineups of smartphone gaming brands and many manufacturers add gaming features to smartphones that are not designed specifically for that. One...

If anyone has been sceptical about the gaming smartphones market, well, don't be. With the ROG Phone II, Asus shows it takes it quite seriously and has created a real gaming beast in the compact form of a smartphone. It's needless to say, the glass and metal backplate follow the typical ROG design language and again, you get an RGB light, which can be customized or turned off entirely. On the front, there's one of...

Yesterday, Xiaomi unveiled that it will announce the Black Shark 2 Pro on July 30th and soon after that the device appeared on the Geekbench browser with the blackshark DLT-A0 code name. This, of course, unveiled its chipset and RAM, which are Snapdragon 855 Plus and 12GB, respectively. The device will run on Android 9 Pie. The same chipset will fuel the Asus ROG Phone II and the nubia Red Magic 3. The Asus gaming...

It did not take too much time to here from another player in the gaming smartphones market - Xiaomi and its Black Shark brand. The company announced on Weibo that it will present the Black Shark 2 Pro on July 30th. Of course, everyone expects that this edition of the model will pack the Snapdragon 855 Plus chipset just like the latest offerings from the other two famous gaming smartphone brands - Asus with the ROG...

The Asus ROG Phone II has been listed on TENAA with two model codes - ASUS_I001DA and ASUS_I001DB. Hence, the main specs are completely revealed. The smartphone has a hefty weight of 240 g and seems quite thick at 9.78 mm depth. It is 170.99 mm high and 77.6 mm wide, which means it will be bulky. The front is occupied by a 6.59-inch OLED display with an FHD+ resolution and a 120Hz refresh rate. It is complemented by...

The ROG Phone 2 by Asus is the first smartphone to get the new Snapdragon 855 Plus. It has now appeared on Geekbench codenamed ASUS_I001DC. Its single-core score is 3616 points and the multi-core score is 11103 points. The version in question has 12GB of RAM as well. Compared to the OnePlus 7 Pro and the Xiaomi Mi 9 which are equipped with a Snapdragon 855 chipset, the performance is almost the same. The Mi 9 has...

Xiaomi Mi 9T is now available with a big discount on GearBest. You can get a: blue Xiaomi Mi 9T Global Version with 6GB RAM and 128GB ROM only for $319.99 with coupon code GBMI9T800 (800 units limit, valid until Jul 23, 2019) black Xiaomi Mi 9T Global Version with 6GB RAM and 64GB ROM only for $299.99 with coupon code GBMI9T500 (600 units limit, valid until Aug 31, 2019) There are flash sales on various models such...

A new poster by Asus on Weibo unveiled that the Taiwanese giant will hold a ROG Day on July 23rd. While the poster does not explicitly state that the ROG Phone 2 will be announced, it is very likely that it will be unveiled together with other ROG products such as motherboards and peripherals. The poster bears Tencent's logo as well hinting at a collaboration between Asus and the publisher of the mobile gaming hit...

Due to the official prohibition of using the Zenfone brand in India, Asus will launch its latest flagship in the country under the name of Asus 6z. The Zenfone brand in India belongs to the Indian company Telecare Network India Pvt Ltd. The India-specific name of the model has been unveiled by Flipkart, which exclusively sales it in the country. The device will be launched on June 19th. Asus 6z features a 6.4-inch...

Asus is currently presenting the ZenFone 6. The device is based on a Snapdragon 855 chipset paired to 8GB of LPDDR4X RAM and 64GB/128GB/256GB of UFA 2.1 storage. Some of the connectivity options of the m6GB/odel include dual-band Wi-Fi 802.11 ac with 2x2 MIMO, Wi-Fi Direct, NFC, Bluetooth 5. ZenFone 6 packs a 5000 mAh battery with Quick Charge 4.0 support. It should provide up to 26 days of 4G standby, up to 21h of...

The latest Asus teaser regarding the ZenFone 6 series confirms that the ZenFone 6 will pack a 5000 mAh battery. The teaser manages to mock the 3700 mAh battery of OnePlus 7, which is a direct competitor. For reference, OnePlus 7 Pro has a 4000 mAh battery, which is still less than the one of the ZenFone 6. The Asus's device has other advantages as well, which the OnePlus 7 series lacks - a microSD card slot for...

Asus will unveil the ZenFone 6 on May 16 and the event already has a dedicated page, which you may check from the source link below. Today the company has released a new teaser, which hints that the flagship model(s) from the ZenFone 6 family, including ZenFone 6Z, will have a full-screen design. The teaser shows the earpiece at the top of the handset but it is unclear whether the display has a waterdrop-style notch...

According to a report from Digitimes, Asus plans on launching the second generation ROG gaming smartphone in the third quarter of 2019. It will team up with Tencent to promote the model in China. Currently, the smartphone business of Asus is on a downside. In December 2018, the company has taken a strategic shift into making only gaming and high-end smartphones in an attempt to save its smartphone division. The...

Asus Brazil has launched two Zenfone smartphones for the local market. The first is the ZenFone Max Shot with a 6.26-inch FHD+ display and a notch. It is powered by a 4000 mAh battery and packs a Snapdragon SiP chipset with 3GB/4GB of RAM and 32GB/64GB of internal storage. There are three rear cameras on this smartphone, including a 12MP main shooter, 8MP ultra-wide one and a 5MP snapper. The selfie camera features...